mjd@csr (Michael J Dinneen) (04/11/91)
I am writing my thesis and see the words are getting hypenated like: graph- s. This is very annoying to the eye. Why does latex do this and how to fix the problem? If there is space for the hyphen why can't the 's' be moved up a line? This happens (for different words) about 5 times in a 60 page report. Thanks for any suggestions. Michael Dinneen University of Victoria, B.C. Canada
robin@lsl.co.uk (Robin Fairbairns) (04/12/91)
In article <mjd.671320132@csr>, mjd@csr (Michael J Dinneen) writes: > I am writing my thesis and see the words are getting hypenated like: graph- > s. This is very annoying to the eye. Why does latex do this and how > to fix the problem? If there is space for the hyphen why can't the 's' > be moved up a line? This happens (for different words) about 5 times > in a 60 page report. Sounds like a TeX 3.0-with-old-[L]PLAIN problem. 3.0 introduced the \{left,right}hyphenmin parameters to control the number of letters that *must* be present in the split-off bits after hyphenation. The reason is that the rules are different in different languages. To solve this (simply), you or your system admin needs to get the latest versions of PLAIN and LPLAIN and to rebuild the formats (or whatever) that you're using your TeX with. More tediously, you could solemnly put appropriate values of the parameters into all your files: \lefthyphenmin=2 \righthyphenmin=3 % disallow x- and -xx breaks > Thanks for any suggestions. I hope I've been helpful (i.e., diagnosed the problem right ;^) [if not, my proposed `tedious' solution will likely fall over] -- Robin Fairbairns, Senior Consultant, postmaster and general dogsbody Laser-Scan Ltd., Science Park, Milton Rd., Cambridge CB4 4FY, UK Tel (+44) 223 420414; Fax (+44) 223 420044; Telex 817346 LSLCAM G Email: robin@lsl.co.uk --or-- rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) (04/13/91)
In article <mjd.671320132@csr> mjd@csr (Michael J Dinneen) writes: >I am writing my thesis and see the words are getting hypenated like: graph- >s. This is very annoying to the eye. Why does latex do this and how >to fix the problem? If there is space for the hyphen why can't the 's' >be moved up a line? This happens (for different words) about 5 times >in a 60 page report. Try including \lefthyphenmin = 2 \righthyphenmin = 3 in the preamble (between \documentstyle and \begin{document}). If that fixes the problem, your local installation of LaTeX is broken and needs to be fixed. Until then you have a workaround. BTW your news software there is also broken: mjd@csr is not a very useful return address. Charles Geyer Department of Statistics University of Chicago geyer@galton.uchicago.edu